These queries helped me when I moved my files directory location. They might help you get started.

update drupal_files set filepath = replace(filepath, 'files/', 'files/otherdirectory/'); update drupal_node_revisions set body = replace(body, 'files/', 'files/otherdirectory/'); update drupal_boxes set body = replace(body, 'files/', 'files/otherdirectory/'); update drupal_node_revisions set body = replace(body, 'theme_get_photo_gallery(', 'my_module_get_photo_gallery(');

And just remember to backup your data before doing anything. :) Eric.

Elisabeth Atems wrote:

Hello,

I've been asked by a colleague to help debug a problem that came up when he moved a drupal installation from his personal desktop to a larger server. I do system administration and consulting for his research group but did not personally set up drupal, so I'm not too familiar with it yet (though I'm slowly learning!). Anyway the problem is: when drupal was running on the desktop, many pages were created by users who had attached uploaded files to them. The installation was tarred up and moved to the server and apache was turned off on the desktop. Now the links within drupal to pages on the server have the server hostname in them, but the links to attached files still have the desktop's hostname, so when you click on them you are referred to the desktop, which is no longer even running a web server.

It doesn't seem possible to manually edit these links in edit page.

Has anyone seen this before, and does anyone know of a way to correct these links? The only thing I have tried is to edit $base_url in sites/default/settings.php, which doesn't seem to be the answer.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Elisabeth